But, also he has been very disparaging of our new mayor at every single city council meeting. Just…just awful! Saying that she shouldn’t give citizens hope and that the declaration of emergency is not important because it’s not a real fix. Although, that is the door to the real fix.

So, that was the little news. So, we were like, “Oh, okay who cares. No big deal”.

NOTE: In this December 18 Al Jazeera American Tonight news report, Dan Wyant was asked several times about a public apology to the people of Flint. He did not take the opportunity to make one.

Then after that, we saw that Dan Wyant, who heads up the water division of the MDEQ [Michigan Department of Environmental Quality], decides to resign with an apology from Governor Snyder which was interesting because that’s the first apology we’ve received from anybody on the state level.

He was the spokesman for the MDEQ, who we absolutely despise.
I guess to be honest because he said the worst things.
He said bad things about us as citizens.

We had to sit through a meeting with him, and not choke him, as he laughed at our photos and our descriptions of what it’s like to live in Flint with the water, back in August, before we even had all the LEAD Data.

He’s also the one that told us all to relax there is no problem with the LEAD.

So, he’s gone.
Great news.
Celebrating.
It was awesome.

Jack Olmsted, GMO Free News/Videoblogging 206: What did you think about the news LeeAnne?

LeeAnne Walters, mother of four: I think it was long overdue. I mean we’re not there yet Steve Bush needs to go. Mike Prysby needs to go.

Jack: Who are these guys?
LeeAnne: Steve Bush is the director of the MDEQ and Mike Prysby is the engineer for the City of Flint and that’s why they both need to not be working there anymore.

Jack: What were there roles in the crisis?
LeeAnne: Well, Mike Prysby is the one that called me stupid at the meeting back in January saying that my water did not look like what I was presenting at the meeting and that I didn’t know what I was talking about.

And Steve Bush was one of the gentleman that was in the Lansing meeting, in August, who was dismissing us and one of the people who said that the City of Flint was the one who decided not to use my LEAD test although it was the MDEQ’s decision to not use the LEAD test.

What the General Auditor found that really kind of irks me because they’re saying that they were – the reason why they didn’t use those tests is because they were not legitimate and that’s a false statement because I did exactly what the City of Flint told me to do when I did those tests.

Jack: That was to disconnect your water filter.
LeeAnne: Yes and regardless if it was disconnected or connected it was not to pull out anything besides aesthetics. So, it doesn’t count on the list of filters that you cannot use when you’re testing for these kind of tests, per what I was told by the EPA.

Melissa: Take that out even with her filter? I mean it was 104 parts per billion (ppb) and 397 (ppb) that’s a problem. That test should have stayed in with a filter it was that high. So, why can’t people understand that?

LeeAnne: Not just that, I was the only person, at that point, for that round of tests, that had a certified LEAD line. I was the only person who could say that I have a LEAD line because it was done by the EPA when they pulled the pipes out of the ground.

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